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Notes on the Sporting News' admirably comprehensive ranking of "the 20 smartest athletes in sports." →
1. Duke alums’ conspicuous non-mentioning of SAT scores is made up for, single-handedly, by Shane Battier: “I have a subscription to Laptop magazine.”
2. Ryan Fitzpatrick didn’t really get a 1580 on his SATs.
3. Chris Young wrote his thesis on “The Impact of Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball on Racial Stereotypes in America: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Stories about Race in The New York Times.”
4. Brad Ausmus is about to start reading The Accidental Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich. (He just finished David Grann’s The Lost City of Z.) Pau Gasol is reading The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick.
5. Georgia Tech’s Sean Bedford is trying way too hard (“Right now, I’m reading The Prince, by Machiavelli. After that, I’ll move on to Paradise Lost, by Milton. I try to keep it to one a week, and if I have spare time, I’ll pick it up more”).
6. Matt Bonner: “I’m a huge cribbage and corduroy enthusiast, and my favorite show ever is The X-Files.”
7. Jeremy Lin has to be on this list (which is deeply entertaining), right? He got an 800 on his SAT II Math 2C…in the ninth grade. (Then again, to paraphrase Conan O’Brien: I’m guessing that during his conversations with Vladimir Radmanovic, it doesn’t come up much.)
Addendum: 8. GotEmCoach points out: ”I loved that Pau listed Shane as his smartest teammate, and Shane listed someone else [Brent Barry].”
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marcthesharc reblogged this from pablog and added:
Wikipedia: Ausmus’s father, Harry, is...retired professor
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gotemcoach said:
I read this last night. Do you know that about Fitz? Or conjecture? I loved that Pau listed Shane as his smartest teammate, and Shane listed someone else (can’t remember). Whoopsie. Totally right about Lin.
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